More significantly, however, Wall Street expected the company to add about 1.23 million subscribers in the U.S. and 5.11 million more internationally. But the company only added 670,000 subscribers in the U.S. and 4.5 million subscribers internationally.

In addition, for the third-quarter, Netflix said it expects to add another five million subscribers globally (650,000 in the U.S. and 4.35 million international), below a consensus estimate of around six million.